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error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.2 (How do you run Torque2D on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit?)

by Wieke · in Torque 2D Beginner · 09/18/2014 (9:00 am) · 2 replies

Hey Everyone

I'm trying to get the Getting Started Guides MyT2DProject to run under Ubuntu 14.04, but it isn't working.

I did the following:

  1. Cloned the Torque 2d github repository.
  2. Used the Linux development guide to compile Torque 2d. (Had to created a trusty-i386 chroot.)
  3. Unzipped the complete project files off the getting started guide.
  4. Copied Leapd.dll, Leap.dll, OpenAL32.dll, Torque2D and unicows.dll to the MyT2DProject folder
  5. Tried to run Torque2D

But all I get is:

./Torque2D: error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried installing the libXft-dev:i386 package (libXft-dev:x86_64 was installed) but it appears to depend on non-existing packages. The thing is, most of what I tried is just cobbled together from the various pages. The getting started guide doesn't mention what is required for getting a project to run under linux 64bit, I just tried to extrapolate from the windows requirements, so I'm not sure if what I'm trying is even possible or if I'm going about it the right way.

Got it to work on windows, but I'd be nice to have it working on ubuntu.
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#1
09/18/2014 (9:12 am)
It's troublesome getting a 32bit app to compile in a 64bit os. I have a laptop with 32bit ubuntu and it compiles fine. I switched from 64bit mint to 32bit and it compiles on that too. Maybe you can run a 32bit distro on a VM and compile in there. I have a linux exe available but you'll still need the 32bit dependencies: https://github.com/practicing01/Torque2D/tree/development

Wieke
#2
09/18/2014 (9:38 am)
It's compiling just fine (make doesn't throw any errors and I end up with an executable). Which dependencies are you talking about though, the ones you need at compile time?

I'll get myself a 32bits VM with ubuntu and mess around with that for a bit.